* 575 BC — Battle of Yanling in China, the army of the State of Jin defeats the forces of the State of Chu in ancient Henan province.

However, Wang Jian decided to weaken Chu's resolve and tricked the Chu army by appearing to be idle in his fortifications whilst secretly training his troops to fight in Chu territory.

Xiang Yu's grandfather, Xiang Yan, was a well known general who led the Chu army in resisting the Qin invaders led by Wang Jian, and was killed in action when Qin conquered Chu in 223 BC.

Later that year, Xiang Liang was killed in the Battle of Dingtao against the Qin army led by Zhang Han and the military power of Chu fell into the hands of the king and some other generals.

The Chu army led by Song Yi and Xiang Yu reached Anyang, some distance away from Julu ( in present-day Xingtai, Hebei ), where Zhao Xie's forces had retreated to.

Despite being heavily outnumbered, Chu forces scored a great victory after nine engagements, defeating the 300, 000 strong Qin army.

The following year, Liu Bang formed an alliance with another five kingdoms and attacked Western Chu with a 560, 000 strong army, capturing Xiang Yu's capital of Pengcheng.

In 202 BC, Han armies led by Liu Bang, Han Xin and Peng Yue attacked Western Chu from three sides and trapped Xiang Yu's army, which was low on supplies, in the Battle of Gaixia.

The morale of the Chu army plummeted and many of Xiang Yu's troops deserted in despair.

During the Spring and Autumn Period ( 771 – 479 BC ), Duke Xiang of Song, when being advised to attack enemy Chu forces while the enemy army was fording a river, refused and waited for the Chu army to form formation.

As promised by Duke Wen to King Cheng during his exile in Chu, the Jin army retired " three days march " ( 退避三舍 ) ( 45 km ) before camping on the plain of Chengpu on the border of Wei and Cao, awaiting a decisive battle The retirement also linked the Jin forces up with Qi and Qin reinforcements.

As the Chu left advanced, it was caught in the flank by Duke Wen's bodyguards, composed of the sons of noble clansmen and sons of his close followers and thus flanked by the Jin central army.

Ying Zheng dismissed Wang Jian's idea and ordered Li Xin and Meng Wu to lead the army to attack Chu, while Wang Jian retired from state affairs on the excuse that he was ill.

The Chu army, led by Xiang Yan ( 項燕 ), had avoided using its main force to resist the Qin invaders, in wait for an opportunity to launch a counterattack.

The Chu forces followed Li Xin's army secretly at high speed for three days and three nights, before launching a surprise offensive and defeating the Qin army.

He made Wu Qi chancellor and reformed the Chu government and army.

In 206 BC, Liu Bang conquered the Three Qins and left Xiao He in charge of Guanzhong and Bashu, while he led his army eastward to attack Xiang Yu's Western Chu kingdom.

Under its old name of Chen ( 陳 / 陈 ), during the Warring States Period Jiangling became the capital of the State of Chu after the Qin army captured their old capital at Ying.

In 278 BC, he led the army from Qin to capture Ying, capital of the State of Chu.

Li's first choice of premier was Chu Cheng, a veteran member of the Kuomintang who had been virtually driven into exile due to his strong opposition to Chiang.

Two former rebel leaders, Xiang Yu ( d. 202 BCE ) of Chu and Liu Bang ( d. 195 BCE ) of Han, engaged in a war to decide who would become hegemon of China, which had fissured into 18 kingdoms, each claiming allegiance to either Xiang Yu or Liu Bang.

For example, during the Warring States Period, Duke Xiang of Song was at war with the state of Chu, and had an opportunity to attack the enemy force, commanded by Zhu, while they were crossing a river.

Wang used the funds to greatly expand Wang Laboratories, which he had co-founded with Dr. Ge-Yao Chu, a school mate from China.

Chu was nominally a tributary state of the Zhou Dynasty, and it was itself an extension of the Chinese civilization that had emerged some centuries before in the north ; but it was also culturally unique, and was a powerful state that held onto much of the middle and lower Yangtze River, with power extending northwards into the North China Plain.

In 223 BC Qin chased down the remnants of the Chu regime, which had fled eastwards, as part of Qin's bid for the conquest of all China.

Duke Wen of Jin then used his growing power to coordinate a military response with Qi, Qin, and Song against Chu, which had begun encroaching northward after the death of Duke Huán of Qi.

By 766 The Karluks had forced the submission of the Western Türk-Türgesh and they established their capital at Suyab on the Chu River.

Xiang Yan, the Chu commander, had lured Qin by allowing a few initial victories, but then counterattacked and burnt two large Qin camps.

As a sign of this shift, the rulers of all the major states ( except for Chu, which had claimed kingly title much earlier ) abandoned their former feudal titles for the title of 王, or King, claiming equality with the rulers of the Zhou.

These poems from the State of Chu are among the most important of all Classical Chinese poetry, however, these poems and their style seem to have had less impact on Classical Chinese poetry, at least at first, than did the Shijing collection and style.

Initially it had three levels to master ( Go, Chu, and Jo ), later Miyagi left only one, the highest, " Jo " level.

Former Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Hsu Hsin-liang, who had quit the party after failing to prevent Chen from running, ran as an independent with New Party legislator Josephine Chu as his running mate.

Three of the four appeared in Wish To See You Again, starring Vic Chou and Ken Chu, while Vanness had guest appearances in a few episodes.

In an interview, Steven Chu described how Ashkin had first envisioned optical tweezing as a method for trapping atoms.

The southern state of Chu had a notably distinct culture from the central plain states, including the nobility system.

Zhao especially liked rare plants and animals, and decided to go on a trip to the State of Chu, after an emissary claimed that Chu had caught a rare bird.

Commodore Records was founded in the spring of 1938 by Milt Gabler, who in 1926 had founded the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, New York City, originally at 136 East 42nd Street ( in the Commodore Hotel ), and from 1938 – 41 with a branch at 46 West 52nd Street – an address commemorated in Chu Berry's ' Forty-six, West Fifty-two '.

Initially, Chu had an advantage over Han, but the tide turned in favour of the latter in 203 BC, after Xiang Yu and Liu Bang came to an armistice, known as the Treaty of Honggou, that divided China into east and west under their domains respectively.

Han Guang had sent his general Zang Tu to assist Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, in his war against Qin.

Owing to the fact that Sima Ying had deep roots in Ye, the subordinates of Sima Chu murdered Sima Ying and his family, using a false edict as justification.

He also had several known daughters: Huai Ying ( wife of Duke Huai of Jin, later wife of Duke Wen of Jin ), Wen Ying ( wife of Duke Wen of Jin ), Qin Ying ( wife of King Gong of Chu ), Jianbi and Nongyu ( wife of Xiao Shi ).

Coincidentally, his father, Chang Kuo Chu, had also participated in this film and acted as his character's father.

He also had a daughter, May Chu (), wife of the physicist Chu Ching-wu, and a son named Paul ().